Republican AG says he'll investigate Indiana doctor who provided care to 10-year-old rape victim

[GeneralMacArthur]

Let's be very clear about what's happening here.

The Republican Party is putting a target on this woman's back.  They know perfectly well that she is going to be the target of violent, hateful rhetoric, threats to her life, perhaps even real-life violence, as a result of this huge spotlight they're shining on her.  And that is the goal.

They want to punish her for humiliating them by giving this poor girl an abortion -- a case that has proven to be incredibly embarrassing for the party by exposing just how f--ked up its ideology truly is.

No reasonable person can defend forcing a ten-year-old rape victim to put her own life at risk giving birth to her rapist's child.  Republicans tried for a minute there, and it didn't work.  So then they tried to muddy the waters by claiming this whole thing was a hoax.  But that's now proven false as well.  So they have nothing left but to take the L.

And they're mad.  So they're going to lash out.  They can't lash out at the ten-year-old girl, so the only person they can lash out at is her doctor.

We've seen where this goes.  We all remember Fox News plastering "Tiller the Killer" all over their chyrons night after night, and having their late-night hosts tell viewers he was a bloodthirsty monster who needed to be in prison, and that "someone needs to do something" about him.  We know what Fox was able to achieve with that effort -- convincing some right-wing extremist to murder Tiller in his church.

The Republican Party knows exactly what it's doing here, and it's intentional.

[GeneralMacArthur]

And the thing is we all knew this was going to happen! This is the natural consequence of the restrictive abortion laws Republicans support.

Yeah I mean we've been saying for 50 years "if you overturn Roe v. Wade, this is what will happen" and Republicans just said ABORTION IS MURDER over and over and over, and now they've overturned Roe v. Wade, and exactly what we said would happen, is happening, and people are absolutely horrified by it and overwhelmingly oppose what Republicans have done, and Republicans are desperately flailing around for literally any excuse or distraction.

It's so frustrating.  Republicans have been talking about late-term abortion for decades, and for decades Democrats have been saying that 93% of all abortions are in the first ten weeks, and only 1% are late-term and they're pretty much always for severe medical problems.  But nobody wanted to listen.  America just kept ignoring us and voting for Republicans based on these lies.  Now the Republicans finally overturn Roe v. Wade, and Americans are finally "learning" what we've been telling them for decades.  Wait, all this time only 1% of abortions were late-term?  Wait, overturning Roe v. Wade means you can't get an abortion even if you're only two weeks pregnant and were raped?  Wait, women can actually die from pregnancy, and abortion is the only way to save their lives?  Yes, you idiots, what's what we've been telling you for years!

[GeneralMacArthur]

Anyway, I was initially going to post about how blue avatars and their allies aren't posting here of course. But maybe it's better they didn't because after watching a handful of posters who did so and try to do pay limitations of being human beings, other such contributions would be pure facepalm or frankly more so just plain disgusting

They spent the first two pages of this thread swarming this story with allegations about how it's false and "what does it mean that it's false" and demanding that we apologize and mocking us.  Now that it's proven true they've completely disappeared without so much as a whimper.

But never fear, next week a nine-year-old will be raped and impregnated in Kentucky and the Kentucky AG will force her to give birth, and Republicans will be back to tell us how it's all fake, but even if it's not fake, it's totally ok and justifiable, and also whatabout Kavanaugh

[GeneralMacArthur]

Abortion is the killing of the innocent human life, regardless of the circumstances.

All innocent life ought to not be killed. If an innocent human life is killed, their ought to be an investigation and prosecution.

In order for an investigation to happen and for a case to be built against the doctor, this girl’s gynecological records, highly sensitive information that should be kept between her and her doctor, is going to be handed over to law enforcement. There might even be a physical inspection of the girl in order to determine wether an abortion has taken place or not. Take a step back and ask yourself, is this really what you want? First, a 10 year old girl is raped, then goes through the traumatic process of getting an abortion. And now the government is seizing her medical records and sticking a f-ing swab up her to determine wether or not the abortion actually happened? This is beyond sickening. You are sickening. The government has no business  here. End of story.

This is what you want.  In a sane world, a ten year old seeking an abortion after getting raped would be an event unworthy of national news.